 That's the idea anyway, and there are about a million reasons why that's just not true anymore. Exhibit A is the series of ongoing and deeply embarrassing disasters that are unfolding at the moment in Atlanta, Georgia and its surrounding metro area. There's no other way to say this because the principles of federalism are no longer really operative. Atlanta's dysfunction poses a direct threat to the entire country. You can't get away from it simply by fleeing the state of Georgia or not living there to begin with.